Chemicals Bound for Libya Seized, Paper Says
From Times Wire Reports
Police in the northern Italian port of Genoa have seized 50 tons of U.N.-banned chemicals that can be used to make mustard gas, and the cargo was bound for Libya, a published report said.
The chemicals were produced in Germany and were being shipped before Christmas by an unidentified Belgian company “with close ties to Muslims,” La Repubblica newspaper said, without identifying its source. The Libyan business that was to get the chemicals said they were for pesticides, the report said.
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